The sad thing is, this might be the only way to get academics interested in the Good Book. “Swarthmore College is offering a course next year that will survey ‘queer and trans’ readings of biblical texts’ by using ‘queer and trans’ theoretical approaches,’ with faculty staying silent on the specifics of the course material,” Bethany Torstenson reports in The College Fix. “‘Queering the Bible’ is set to launch next fall and will be instructed by Gwynn Kessler, an associate professor of religion, according to Swarthmore’s course catalog.”
“The course, which is being offered through Swarthmore’s Religion Department, promises to ‘[introduce] students to the complexity of constructions of sex, gender, and identity in one of the most influential literary works produced in ancient times.'”
